Getting "It"
I had mentioned Microsoft's Heather Hamilton as someone who gets "it" when it comes to recruiting. I have a hard time defining "it", but I suppose it's kind of like the old joke about pornography -- you can't really describe it, but you know it when you see it.
At this week's Society for Human Resources Management Annual Conference, we were visited by Dennis Smith, a Talent Acquisition Manager over at T-Mobile. Dennis runs the "Career Builders Blog", which highlights life and open positions at T-Mobile. Why is it called the "Career Builders Blog" when there's another company, CareerBuilder.com, that has everything to do with recruiting, but not necessarily anything to do with T-Mobile?
Well, as Dennis explained it: "We get a ton of traffic from people doing searches for CareerBuilder". Dennis clearly gets "it".
Recruitment blogging is a tiny blip on the recruiting (and more specifically the online recruiting) radar screen, but people like Dennis are doing their best to change that. Well done!
Comments
I hope there's a cure...for "it". You have to be careful these days, or else you'll get "it".
Posted by: Heather | June 29, 2006 08:04 PM
You know I hate doing this, but there's no "old joke" about porn. You actually misquote Justice Potter Stewart, who, while attempting to describe prohibited speech in a concurring opinion, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material … but I know it when I see it."
Slippery
Posted by: Slippery Pete | July 3, 2006 11:41 AM
Heather -- I hope I get "it", whatever "it" is. OK, actually I've officially retired that saying from this blog!
Sleezer -- Yeah, that's kind of like saying "You're not going to like this, but..." I knew there was something about that (mis)quote that had to do with a legal ruling, I was just too lazy to look it up.
Posted by: MrShafrir | July 5, 2006 06:48 PM